Prologue
书迷正在阅读:女主你清醒一点GL , 俞先生的心头宝 , 和首富男友分手以后[娱乐圈] , 同桌大腿超好抱[重生] , 殊绝 , 原来你一直想撩我[快穿] , 红楼之重生 , 和反派联姻后 , 朝暮 (1V1) , 穿成炮灰后我和神经病男主HE了[快穿] , 所有人都在求我出柜[娱乐圈] , [影卫]风起西荒
prologue spoken by mr. woods on his be-night, monday, 16th april, 1787. when, by a generous public's kind acclaim, that dearest meed is granted—ho fame; waen here your favour is the actor's lot, nor even the man in private life fot; what breast so dead to heavenly virtue's glow, but heaves impassion'd with the grateful throe? poor is the task to please a barb'rous throng, it needs no siddons' powers in southern's song; but here an a nation, fam'd afar, fenius, learning high, as great in war. hail, caledonia, name for ever dear! before whose sons i'm honour'd to appear? where every sce, every nobler art, that inform the mind or mend the heart, is known; as grateful nations oft have found, far as the rude barbarian marks the bound. philosophy, no idle pedant dream, here holds her search by heaven-taught reason's beam; here history paints with elegand force the tide of empire's fluctuating course; here douglas forms w